Number
AS91519
Version
1
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Achievement Standard
Subject Reference
Drama 3.8
Title
Script a drama suitable for live performance
Level
3
Credits
Subfield
Drama
Domain
Drama Creation
5
Assessment
Internal
Status
Registered
Status date
4 December 2012
Planned review date
31 December 2016
Date version published
4 December 2012
This achievement standard involves scripting a drama suitable for live performance.
Achievement Criteria
Achievement
Achievement with Merit
Achievement with Excellence
 Script a drama suitable
for live performance.
 Script a coherent drama
suitable for live
performance.
 Script an effective drama
suitable for live performance.
Explanatory Notes
1
This achievement standard is derived from The Arts Learning Area of The New
Zealand Curriculum, Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2007, and relates to the
strands Developing Ideas, Communicating and Interpreting, and Understanding the
Arts in Context for Drama Level 8. It also relates to the material in the latest version
of the Teaching and Learning Guide for Drama, Ministry of Education, at
http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz.
2
Script a drama suitable for live performance involves producing a credible, original
work that can stand on its own, communicates an intention, depicts character(s), and
is able to be performed with dramatic pace and tension. It may involve:
 research
 formulation of dramatic intention
 decisions around structure
 drafting
 formatting
 standing up the script, or sections of it
 refining, which will be a repeated process
 a rehearsed, enacted play reading of the whole script.
The scripting must be undertaken by an individual working on his/her own.
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
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AS91519
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Script a coherent drama suitable for live performance involves producing a
convincing work that is structured to have flow and dramatic unity.
Script an effective drama suitable for live performance involves producing a
compelling work that captures the essence of the dramatic context, and has impact
and originality.
3
The final script uses formatting and conventions appropriate to the style and intention
of the drama. These include:
 title and playwright
 indication of the dramatic intention and form and/or style
 cast list, and role notes
 information about the background to the play
 information about the setting
 textual conventions that identify who is speaking, with spaces between each piece
of dialogue, for example acts and scenes
 instructions to the actors about attitude and/or emotional states
 stage directions
 pausing, silences
 technical directions about lighting, sound, set, props, and costumes.
4
One rehearsed, enacted play reading or performance, and the written script are
required. Changes to the script may be made after the enacted play reading.
5
Conditions of Assessment related to this achievement standard can be found at
www.tki.org.nz/e/community/ncea/conditions-assessment.php.
Quality Assurance
1
Providers and Industry Training Organisations must have been granted consent to
assess by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against
achievement standards.
2
Organisations with consent to assess and Industry Training Organisations assessing
against achievement standards must engage with the moderation system that applies
to those achievement standards.
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0233
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016